Portrait of a Fractured Arctic
What the melting permafrost looks and sounds like to a scientist. The post Portrait of a Fractured Arctic appeared first on Nautilus.
ark Urban was not in the Arctic to study ice. He was looking for fish—tracing their travels from lake to stream and back again, as they navigate their changing world. But at all hours, in the field and in his campsite, he could hear it. . Pebbles being released from previously frozen lake banks, dropping into the water below.
